Good lord, did Bob Hamelin’s strike-shortened rookie campaign do a number on you.

That’s 2/9 of a Springfield Nuclear Power Plant lineup right there.

You beat me to an Avis/Enterprise/Alamo joke

Being one of 4 players in history to play a full season without grounding into a double play doesn’t seem to substantiate this claim. https://www.fangraphs.com/community/craig-biggio-double-play-escape-artist/

That sounds like the 1992 Dome Days I grew up watching on HSE!

These people can ping.

Ditto.

I’m 32 and helping coach high school baseball now, and I worked with 7 and 8 year olds before that. The word “rot” to describe the culture is spot on. Honestly, just socialize the child and let them be, well a child.

Andruw Jones in CF was a highlight of my teenage years. And fat Andruw Jones with the Texas Rangers made me more of a fan.

Possibly the best right-handed doubles hitter ever (AstroTurf aided)... Also, he got in on the third ballot.

Blue Jays fan here - I honestly had trouble figuring out if he had actually retired or just stopped getting paychecks, because he just kept suiting up.

Jewel in the same aisle as the “Goatbusters” Cubs shirt, and sadly, there wasn’t a Brett Lawrie, but a Yoan Moncada who had not even made his debut at this point -

My favorite unlicensed Sox shirt I saw at a grocery store up here had something like, “2017 - Our Year” and then faces of six players on it. Three of them were gone by the All-Star break and one was Brett Lawrie.

If there’s one thing Mets fans love seeing over and over again, it’s Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce.

The folks at Jalopnik were really thrown off by this power shovel content

“That Batista Thumbs Up boy is bad news, but Hemmerling for Mitchell is all right... Now that Rom Romberts kid is a strange bird.” - My Mom (Probably)

The only person who likes Drew more than Drew is Drew’s mom.

Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Arvydas Sabonis, Zydrunas Ilgauskas and now LeAngelo Ball. Lithuanian hoops is finally on brand.

+1 Squirt of White Fluid